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AVIA B.534 – Part One – A Newcastle Model Kit
Newcastle model? A Newcastle model is one you encounter unexpectedly and seize upon. It is a case of never letting a chance go by…refer to Bob Hudson’s song for further instructions. This old Czech KP kit is from the 1980’s. The box had seen service, but at least protected the sprue trees, decals and instructions.…
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I Need A Secretary
Stop making those snorting noises – I really do. I write more than I can readily publish and the mechanics of translating these little pieces to the WordPress site and then sneaking them onto a Facebook page is taking up a great deal of time. They come off the ends of my fingers like literary…
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The Noodles You Have In Your Bowl
Are all you need. Have you ever been to a fast food outlet that tried to sell you food by asking whether you wanted to ” up-size ” it? Did you agree or decline, thinking that a standard-size assault on your gall bladder was all you really needed? You felt you had just been hustled.…
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Rain Clouds At Dawning
Gather round me now… Rain clouds at dawning, model maker take warningWhiskey at night, model maker’s delight. Arrr, the old tales be the true ones… I have never taken so much notice of temperature and humidity as when I started airbrushing scale models. I was fool enough to try the art when the weather department…
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Buy A Curse
Be careful in your selection – you want something that will disturb and haunt you for a long time to come. The thing to do is go to the hobby shop and search the shelves until you find something that is both impossibly expensive and horribly complex. Preferably with a complicated colour scheme and a…
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Take It Off
Take it aaaaall off… If your mind replayed the music of Dave Rose – ” The Stripper ” – you are a reprobate. I am ashamed to be seen with you. This morning I have to strip paint from an old Airfix kit to get enough parts to complete a stash build. I have rejected…
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ME 262 – Part Four – A New Name
A new name for a new country – this has now become an Avia S92 Turbina…and has ended its days in a Prague air museum. Not a bad fate for an airframe that was on the cutting edge of technology at the time. The remaining stocks of the Me 262 that German war production had…
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Me 262 – Part Three – Shinee!
I am starting to see why a friend of mine is so attracted by shiny objects. I have just glossed the Messerschmitt and it is all I can do to stop myself from touching the surface! I know it needs time to cure, but so does my infatuation with the gloss. I wish someone had…
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Me 262 – Part Two – How Wrong I Was
When I saw the flash flooding around some of the Revell parts for this jet fighter I though that I was in for an epic of cutting and sanding. As it is, there has been little fettling needed and by the time it has progressed from dry fit to cementation, no filler gaps are to…
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Me 262 – Part One – Another Childhood Ambition
As a child, I had many model aircraft kits – but one that always eluded me was the Airfix baggie of the ME 262 jet fighter. I have since seen them as Hobby Boss and Czech kits, but never gave it much thought. Then a Revell kit called to me through a fog of disinterest…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 